we all pick at our scars — a strand of an assault case, told by mother to daughter, passed on like heirloom.
Clocking in at about four hours, Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 is the length of a double feature. Despite the length and the hype, the finale still falls short of expectations thanks to poor pacing, poor character choices, and poor diverse storytelling.
Remember Caroline from Vampire Diaries? Well, now she’s The Suitcase Killer, allegedly.
"Come Play" was entertaining and had some great ideas about how to scare children away from playing with facial recognition settings.
This documentary moves chronologically through Black representation in horror films, revealing the genre's connections to Black history.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
One of the great achievements of this film is its ability to challenge the mind and to force you to try to process information in a different way than you’re used to.
